Microsoft had said they were going to limit the ability of folks to re-install Retail versions of Vista to ONE "transfer", either to another physical machine or a machine that has had one of the main components changed, such as the boot hard drive, the CPU, motherboard, vid card, etc. (it was never specifically said what would trigger a "transfer" in the same system)

After a bunch of angry feedback from Enthusiasts (those who spend THOUSANDS on a system swapping out parts, optimizing, etc.) MS caved and said they would remove that restriction, pretty much simply stating that you could only have it installed on a single machine at a time, which seems quite reasonable.

Even though I have no plans to go to Vista until I'm forced to by Microsoft abandoning XP, I think this has got to be a good thing for Vista users.

Now, if we can only find out how the OEM version will be affected. After all, folks who buy Voodoo or Alienware or FalconNW rigs will get OEM versions of Vista, and they will want to be tweaking and swapping out parts like crazy and move the software from one rig to another. I hope they get the same policy.

when they r implementing that thing ???

With the shipping of VISTA to retail, I believe.

We will just have to wait and see what happens

I dont think we need a new version of Windows...well I think eventually we will be forced to upgrade to VISTA .. Just like we were forced to have SP2 when it made XP so darn slow!!

Microsoft is the evil dictator, so yeah, they will force us by dropping support for XP, most likely. Scumbag monopolistic jerks.

If it wasn't for Microsoft we wouldn't be having this discussion right now. They may not be the best business but they certainly moved the internet to levels it never would have attained without them.

Errr - urhmmm - ok.

I think the IntarWeb would have worked out just fine without any help from MS and it's non-standard web code stuff.

I have switched back to Win 2000 on one of my machines just because it does not constantly bother me with XP validation. Just today, I changed out some nVidia drivers and that alone was enough to trigger another activation even though I just activated it 2 months ago (third time). No hard ware changes at all during that time frame.

If they had actually implimented such a policy as was indicated above, I would never upgrade.

I can sympathize. 2000 is a solid OS and it is a crying shame MS dropped support for it. It seems to be the best solution for business OS's at the moment.

And where is IntarWeb now? The same place you would be if not for Microsoft, you can hate them all you want but the fact is that they advanced internet technology faster and better than anyone else in the history of the web. Its a fact.

Fact? Based on what?

I really don't think we need statistics for this one, its rather obvious. I don't see or hear about them introducing anything new lately do you. Maybe I am wrong and the Intra-Web has some new non-standard webcode technology but I haven't seen it. Maybe we are talking about 2 different things. Is this what you mean?
http://www.atozed.com/intraWeb/

Facts and Data are critical to support such suppositions.

As far as I'm concerned, Apache and the WWW Consortium and NETSCAPE did far more for the internet than anything Microsoft could have possibly hoped to do. Java, Pearl, CGI, PHP - none of that had Microsoft written all over it.

I am not denying they did not contribute but I guess we have to agree to disagree on this one.

Microsoft & Saddam Hussein one of the same, DICTATORS

And what Operating System are you running? That is a poor analogy.

hmmm thats unfair

hmmm u mean microsoft will be too hanged